Well, when you are a young person in your 20's
http://news.tokunation.com/wp-conten...host-Onari.jpg
and shaved your head bald for a supporting role in a year-long children's superhero show where you are the butt of all jokes and make faces like this for pretty much every episode to get a laugh
http://i.imgur.com/brJrCdL.jpg

You can bet your bottom dollar that a dude like Onari will get my utmost respect just on dedication alone whether he is funny or not.

But seriously, that face is priceless. :lolol

In fairness, the baldness is a marked improvement on whatever that haircut is supposed to be.

I believe it's called, "the Decade".

As for the topic, I don't mind comedy in Rider series, even shows like Agito had some funny moments, but lately it's so...bizarre. I mean I could go back in Den-O or Fourze and find the comedy there completely fine, but this character zooms their face into the screen and scream thing going on is completely baffling to me.

I mean even in Zyouhger, that comedy seems to skew towards a more Den-O to me, then...Onari randomly doing a Matrix bullet dodge only to break his back.

I enjoy the comedic element myself, but it seems that Ghost (and Wizard for some people) just went too far. It could be one of those things where it's more the writer than anything else, didn't the writer of Ghost do a lot of sitcom kind of stuff in the past? I haven't watched any of Ghost yet personally though.

Tsukasa has too many different hairstyles for me to ever feel like there was one that defined him.

In fairness, that did get a good laugh out of me.

Meh, anything is better than Onari, and the early Drive "comedy".

Pretty much. Onari is extremely popular in Japan. When he came on stage at the Chou Eiyuusai, the audience was pretty much freaking out.

Not to mention that older Rider shows did have some of that comedy too. The Blade Takoyaki episodes are one of the most memorable examples for that.